Time to breath easy is over, air pollution is reaching critical levels again this winter. Centre for Science and Environment has reviewed the daily air quality data generated by the Central Pollution Control Board as well as the Delhi Pollution Control Committee and the public information system developed by the CPCB and Aria technologies.

Multiplicity of regulatory authorities has not been carefully considered by the government while proposing to set up the National Environment Assessment and Monitoring Authority (NEAMA).

Low carbon growth options for India by Chandra Bhushan presented at the South Asian Media Briefing on Climate Change, CSE, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, 24 – 25 November, 2010.

Hell broke lose when the environment minister Jairam Ramesh called SUVs criminal for guzzling cheap subsidized diesel. He is right -- The real beneficiaries of the diesel subsidy are the owners of "BMWs, Benz and Hondas'', and not the farmers.

The high corridors of the nation are abuzz with talk about how much food should be given to the country’s poor as a right. Should it be 25 kg of rice or 35 kg of wheat a month per person at highly subsidized rates? Read this latest blog by Sunita Narain, Director of CSE.

Memorandum to the Committee on Agriculture with views on “cultivation of genetically modified food crops – prospects and effects” presented at the sitting of the Committee on October 19, 2010.

Memorandum to the Committee on Agriculture with views on “cultivation of genetically modified food crops – prospects and effects” presented at the sitting of the Committee on October 19, 2010.

CSE finds high levels of antibiotics in leading brands of honey sold in Delhi, points to double standards in regulations as foreign brands sold in India also have contamination.

Pesticide industry body loses defamation case against CSE, twice. The Crop Care Federation of India (CCFI), a pesticide industry body, has twice lost the defamation case it filed against Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi. CCFI had been pursuing the case against a study done by CSE highlighting the endosulfan poisoning of residents of Padre village in Kasaragod district, Kerala.